Recent activities

Pictures of and information about activities the YARN has participated in recently can be found below.

YARN Welcome Meeting for New Staff, Thursday, September 19, 2019

Togethter with the Faculty Board, YARN hosted a well-attended informal Welcome Meeting for staff new to the Faculty of Arts this academic year at Van Swinderen Huys. In addition to an icebreaker game, a fun quiz and plenty of drinks and snacks, there were short presentations by our Dean, Gerry Wakker, Allyson Bulthuis from Human Resources, YARN member Sean Desjardins on grant-writing, and Marziye Tolouee Nodolaghi of WIRE ('Welcome International Researchers and Employee').

YARN Faculty of Arts Early Career Researchers' Lunch: Small Grants and Fellowships, Monday, May 14, 2018

Need to fund pilot research? Interested in spending time abroad to write a book? Recently, the YARN hosted an informal lunch presentation-block on how small (and medium-sized) grants and fellowships can greatly enrich your research.

We thanks presenters Dr. Willem Jongman (on longer-term visiting fellowships abroad), Dr. Frank Harbers (on a short-term research fellowship in the Netherlands), Dr. Konstantin Mierau (on a short-term research partnership abroad) and Faculty of Arts Funding Officer Dr. Marjolein Stern (on the many available funding sources--with helpful weblinks)! You can view their presentations by clicking their names.